What, If Anything, Is De-Extinction? By Lisa H. Sideris The prospect of developing genetic technologies that aim to “bring back” extinct species is met with palpable excitement by some members of the scientific community and Read more…
Blue Religion By Justine M. Bakker “Based on my extremely blurry and perhaps unreliable recollection that he once told me so,” writes David Chidester in his contribution to With This Root About My Person, a Read more…
Embracing the Magicality of Science By Kocku von Stuckrad A few weeks ago, Renny Thomas argued on this blog that “rituals and prayers are very much part of the public imagination of science in India.” Read more…
“Who Art in Heaven,” they/them/their By Anna Mercedes When I was in seminary training to be a pastor, inclusive gender language in worship was all the rage. I was at a progressive Christian school and Read more…
Mauna Kea Matters: An Experiment in Public Engagement By Greg Johnson Mauna Kea matters. Of this much, I’m very sure. But just how it matters, and to whom, is for me an open question and Read more…
Who Knows the Day and the Hour? Date Setting, Climate Change, and Apocalypse By Susannah Crockford We have twelve years to save the world. When I first heard this statement in June 2018, it was Read more…
Why Endangered Species Need Patron Saints By Sarah M. Pike With some of my students, I bent down to fill a cup and drink from Saint Gobnait’s holy well in the woods near Ballyvourney, a Read more…
Unholy Alliances and the End of Taker Culture By Kocku von Stuckrad When on 6 May 2019 the United Nations published the new Report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Read more…
What It Means to Deny Climate Change By Susannah Crockford On 26 August 2018, sixty academics, environmentalists, and politicians released an open letter asserting that they will no longer debate with those who deny anthropogenic Read more…
Social media as religion – a tale of unexamined desire and (mis-in)formation by Dion Forster It could be said that social media is the most prevalent religion of our time. Like other faiths, it forms Read more…
